Hay or straw burning stove



4(No Model.)

- J. H. LINTON.

.HAY 0R STRAW BURNING STOVB.

Patented Feb. 6, 1894.

UNITEDvv STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

JOSEPH H. LINTON, OF FORT ASSINABOINE, MONTANA.

HAYAOR STRAW BURNING STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,086, dated February6, 1894.

` Application iiled .T une 30, 1893. Serial No. l79,287. (No model.)

To all whom it Amay concern:

Be'it known that I, JOSEPH H. LIN'roN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Assinaboine, in the county of Choteau and State ofMontana, have invented a new and useful Hay or Straw Burning Stove, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hayand straw burning stoves or'furnaces, the objects in view being to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effectivedevice in which the ashes are dropped outside of the grate to avoidchoking the latter; and to provide improved means for feeding the fuelcontinuously.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a heating stoveembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sectional view ofthe same, showing the magazine slide elevated in full lines anddepressed in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the magazineslide detached.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding partsin all thefigures of the drawlugs.

The stove comprises a shell 1, provided at the bottom with an ash-pit 2,fitted with an ash-door 3. Above the ash-pit is arranged an upwardly andrearwardly inclined deflector or partition, 4, the front edge of whichis spaced from the front wall of the casing to form an opening 5. Thegrate 6 rises vertically from the lower edge of the said deflector orpartition in rear of the opening 5, thus forming acombustion chamber 7,between the grate and the front wall of the casing and separatingtherefrom the space above the deiiector to form a magazine 8. The frontside of the combustion chamber is fitted with a door 9, and to the topof said chamber is connected a pipe or iiue 10, to carry off the gaseous products of combustion.

The magazine extends vertically above the upper edge of the grate toform a guide 11, comprising a front plate 12, and side wings 13. Withinthis guide is fitted the magazine slide 14, having a closed rear side,an open front side which is closed when the slide is in its elevatedposition, as shown in full lines in Fig. 1, by the front plate of theguide, an open lower end which communicates with the magazine, and anopen upper end provided with` a cover 15.

In operation the magazine slide is elevated to the position shown infull lines in Fig. 2, thus forming an extension tothe magazine proper,and the thus extended magazine is filled with fuel, such as hay, straw,cornstalks, 85e., and the cover 15 is closed. The fuel is now lighted infront of the grate, whereby the flame rises in the shallow combustionchamber adjacent to the front wall of the casing. As the fuel isconsumed it is fed to the grate by the depression of the slide and ispressed forwardly by the inclined deilector at the bottom of themagazine. Guides '16 are fixed to the side walls of the casing to holdthe slide in place in its depressed position,l and if desirable weightsmay be employed to depress the slide automatically as the fuel isconsumed. The ashes, as will be apparent, drop through the opening infront of the deiiector into the ash-drawer.

From the above description it will be understood that the inconvenienceordinarily experienced inthe use of hay and straw burning stoves,namely, the necessity for frequent fueling, is overcome by theconstruction which I have described for automatically feeding the fuel,as it is consumed, and causing the waste to fall outside of the grateand directly into the ash-receiver. Furthermore, it will be seen thatthe draft is not through the fuel stored but is in front of the grate,and therefore does not char the fuel. Furthermore, the fuel burns onlyat the surface and the draft pass ing over the front side of the grateis unimpeded and insures complete combustion.

Various changes in the form, proportion, andthe minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacricing any of the advantages of this invention. In this connection itmay be said that the construction illustrated is ap plicable, with aslight modification, to cooking-stoves by connecting the draft flues andpassages of such stove to the combustion chamber Having described theinvention, what I claim is- 1. In a stove, the combination of avertically-disposed fuel magazine provided with an imperforate,forwardly and downwardly inclined licor or bottom, a combustion chamberlocated in front of the lower part of said fuel magazine, a gratedisposed vertically between the fuel magazine and the combustionchamber, and terminating at the front edge of the floor or bottom of theformer, and a smoke flue communicating with the combustion chamber atits top, substantially as specified.

2. In a stove, a verticallydisposed fuel magazine provided with aforwardly and downwardly inclined floor forming a deflector, a gratearranged in front of said fuel magazine and rising from the front edgeof said floor, a combustion chamberarranged in front of the grate, andan ash-pit communicating with the bottom of the combustion chamber in'front of the grate, substantially as specied.

3. In a stove the combination with a verticallydisposed fuel magazine, acombustion chamber in front of said magazine, and an interposed grate,of a magazine slide Iitting and vertically movable in the magazine andhaving an open front side to communicate through the grate with thecombustion chamber when the slide is depressed, substantially asspecified.

4. In a stove, the combination with a vertically-disposed fuel magazineprovided at its lower end with a forwardly and downwardly inclineddeiector, a vertically disposed grate rising from the front edge of saiddeliector, and a combustion chamber arranged in front of the grate, of amagazine slide fitting in said magazine and having an open front sideand lower end, said slide being adapted to descend by gravity as thesubjacent fuel is consumed, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signatu re in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH H. LINTON.

